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Even though it missed the Kiting Magazine winter issue, the AKA and the Kite Trade Association will once again hold a Poster Contest for use during Kite Month 2013. The rules for this contest are:

 Poster must contain AKA, KTAI and NKM logos. (These can be copied from the National Kite Month website www.nationalkitemonth.org.) Poster should have spaces at the bottom for an organizer to write in: Event Name _______________ Date & Time _______________ Location __________________ Contact __________________ Sponsor __________________ Poster elements should be appropriate for 8.5x11 inches. Color is preferred. Format should be .doc or .jpg. Entries must be original art work/photos of the entrant. All submissions will become property of the AKA. Entries must be submitted by January 24, 2013 to.

Full bleed cropping? Sounds painful. Is that something done in the emergency room? Or do I have all wrong and its done in a wheat field just before harvest?

About the photos used in posters  By submitting a poster with a photo to the poster contest, the submitter relinquishes ownership of the poster and allows the AKA to use the poster any way it sees fit. The AKA cannot give John Chilese a royalty (should he be the winner) for each poster printed and or published. The NKM committee would have the right to make modifications to the poster/photo, such as in the positioning of AKA and KTAI logos or fill-in spaces. The AKA would not be obligated to put a photographer acknowledgment in the poster. Also, NKM would retain submissions for possible use as a poster in a later years for National Kite Month.

The AKA would have no claim on the actual photo used in the poster, and would not restrict the photographer from using the image elsewhere if he/she desires.

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